Men's Fitness Mag airbrushed cover model Andy Roddick

[Cadet]

From huffingtonpost.com:

Men's Fitness Doctors Andy Roddick's Guns

Rachel Sklar | Posted Wednesday May 23, 2007 at 10:06 AM

On Friday, TMZ noticed that Andy Roddick looked rather buff in his recent Men's Fitness cover — weirdly, egg-white-and-whey-enzyme- muscle-building-protein-powder-with- a-dash-of-steroids buff. Were those really Roddick's guns, it wondered, or had Men's Fitness indulged in a little Kate Winslet-Emma Watson-Martha Stewart-style photoshoppery? Survey says: Yes! Turns out we got the confirm from the brawny Mr. Roddick himself. Via Towleroad (which has some yummy before and after pics showing that Roddick didn't need any damn help), we nav'd on over to AndyRoddick.com, where the tennis star posted an entry to his blog (yes! Posted an entry to his blog!). Unfortunately, information ain't free, and you need to be a member to read the whole thing, so we'll trust Towleroad for the excerpt:

"I spent the last few weeks in Austin really focused on my training and getting back into shape...but pretty sure I'm not as fit as the Men's Fitness cover suggests...little did I know I have 22 inch guns and a disappearing birth mark on my right arm. I saw the cover for the first time when I landed after Rome...it was pretty funny...I walked by the newsstand in the airport and did a total double take ...I can barely figure out how to work the red-eye tool on my digital camera...whoever did this has mad skills...maybe Rafael Nadal wants his arms back?...if you can manage to stop laughing at the cover long enough, check out the article inside, the photo shoot on the boat was pretty cool..and I recognize the person in those photos..."

Roddick seems pretty good-humored about the whole thing, but really, this is a pretty big violation: Retouching a photo to smooth out some wrinkles is one thing — and done with regularity, obviously — but digitally changing a body part — actually, two — is a completely different story and Men's Fitness definitely knows by now that it's one hulking heavyweight of a no-no. On the cover, no less! More importantly, why does Men's Fitness need to retouch the guns of a world-class athlete? And what does it say about the message it's sending its readers — and whether it can be believed on anything, at all? To whom can readers turn for gun information they can trust?

Not Men's Fitness, apparently, which means that we probably can't trust them on losing the gut, working the glutes, and how to get her back in the sack. And is that really the girl behind the porn? What now can we believe? Maybe if Men's Fitness offered photoshopping tips...

See the image <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2007/05/18/did-mens-fitness-pump-up-andy-roddick/">here</a>

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

Andy Roddick's not here to talk about the past....

 

[sportschick]

Jesus, they made it look like they photoshopped Mark McGwire's andro-pumped arms onto Andy's body. Gross.

Andy's got a great body (as do many tennis players). There's really no need to try to make it better. Plus arms that big are just gross.

 

[John]

I saw that cover in the store today and immediately thought they had pasted Andy's head on somebody else's body.

 

[GB-Hack]

The quote I heard from Roddick went something like:

"I think Rafael Nadal wants his arms back."

 

[Second Thoughts]

Remember when someone photo enhanced skinny old John McEnroe to look buff in an ad? Now that was a stretch.

 

[joe]

Jesus, they made it look like they photoshopped JDV's andro-pumped arms onto Andy's body. Gross.

Fixed.

 

[John]

Remember when someone photo enhanced skinny old John McEnroe to look buff in an ad? Now that was a stretch.

Maybe they got some shots of him during his steroid days.

 

[ballscribe]

I saw that cover in the store today and immediately thought they had pasted Andy's head on somebody else's body.

That's exactly what they did.

The shoulders and pecs and the huge difference between that and an apparently tiny waist also aren't anything close to him.

You can see his little belly every time he flips up the front of his polo shirt, which is like before every freaking point he plays.

That's just wrong.

 

[sportschick]

Andy's real bod

 

[Jones]

That's a bad shop job. The two forearms don't even match. Check out the definition of his right arm compared to his left (our right).

Of course, the lead blurb is how to get great guns... Coincidence? Methinks not.

 

[Cadet]

The guy's hot. And he's a world-class athlete. There was no need to do this.

I'm glad Roddick had a sense of humor about it. I suppose we should thank Kate Winslet for being the example of handling airbrushing with disgust and grace.

 

[GB-Hack]

He also said it took off the birthmark on his right arm (pointing towards the camera in the cover shot).

 

[sportschick]

He also said it took off the birthmark on his right arm (pointing towards the camera in the cover shot).

Might have happened because that's not so much airbrushing as it is just putting his head on somebody else's body, who didn't have a birthmark.

 

[John]

That's a bad shop job. The two forearms don't even match. Check out the definition of his right arm compared to his left (our right).

Of course, the lead blurb is how to get great guns... Coincidence? Methinks not.

I agree it's a bad shop job, but a lot of tennis players have vastly different arms -- depending on if they're right-handed or a lefty. Jimmy Connors' left arm was twice as big around as his left.


EDIT: Here's an example: http://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_tennis/CONNORS_Jimmy_1982_GH_T.jpg

 

[Jones]

That's a good point, John. But judging from that picture sportschick posted, they still ballooned the **** out of it.

 

[John]

That's a good point, John. But judging from that picture sportschick posted, they still ballooned the **** out of it.

No doubt. That cover looks like something The Onion would do for a joke.

 

[TigerVols]

Men's Fitness is owned by The National Enquirer folks and paid (pays?) Arnie Schwarzenegger millions to "edit" it.

Need I say more?

 

[Cansportschick]

Please, anything at this point is better than those American Express ads that are contstantly in MacLean's magazine. ::) Andy's outfit when he is sitting in the boat needs some work. Just terrible for a decent looking guy :o

 

[tyler durden 71351]

You know, people are making a big deal about this, but they've been doing this on women's magazine covers for years. Hell, they regularly take photos of models and actresses and shrink their waists and add to their boobs. The whole thing is creepy...